He -asws said to me, ‘The rooms are over there.

He -asws said to me, ‘The rooms are over there.’ I then searched them but did not find anything except for the bag of money that was sealed with the insignia of the mother of al-Mutawakkil on it and another sealed bag of money. He said to me, ‘There is the prayer rug.’ I lifted it up and there was a sword underneath in a sheath. I took them to Al-Mutawakkil. When he saw the insignia of his mother on it he called her for inquiry and she came to him.

Private servants informed me that she said to him, ‘When you were very ill, I had vowed out of frustration that if you recovered I would pay the Imam -asws ten thousand Dinars from my own properties. I paid him -asws and this is my own seal.’ He opened the other bag and there were four hundred Dinars in it. Al-Mutawakkil added another bag of money to it and asked me to deliver them to Abu Al-Hassan -asws .

I returned the sword and the bags of money to him saying, ‘My master, (I wish you knew) how much this assignment has depressed me.’ The Imam -asws said, ‘The unjust ones will find out very soon the destination in which they will end up.’’ [3] The narrator says in a Hadith: ‘Mohammed ibn al-Faraj told me that Abu al-Hassan -asws (our 10 th Imam -asws ) had written to him that: ‘O Mohammed, organize your affairs and be careful.’ He (Mohammed ibn al-Faraj) said, ‘I began to organize my affairs and I did not know what the Imam -asws meant until the police came to me and took me out of Egypt as a captive.

All of my belongings were confiscated and I remained in prison for eight years. In the prison I received a letter from the Imam -asws that said, ‘O Mohammed, do not reside in the western location.’ I read the letter and said to myself, ‘The Imam -asws has told me this whilst I am still in prison. This is strange.’ Shortly afterwards, I was released, thanks to Allah -azwj . ‘The narrator has said that Mohammed ibn al-Faraj wrote to him -asws about his properties.

The Imam -asws wrote to him (Mohammed ibn al-Faraj) in response, ‘Your properties will soon be returned to you and even if they are not returned to you it will not harm you.’ When Mohammed al-Faraj left for the army camp (Samarra) an order was issued to release his properties but he (Mohammed ibn al-Faraj) died before receiving them. [4] The narrator says in a Hadith: ‘Zayd ibn Ali has said, ‘I became ill and a doctor came to see me at night.

He prescribed a medicine for me to be taken at night for so and so many days.